Posted on 07/08/2022 9:36:32 PM PDT by grundle
For months, Germany has feared having to ration energy amid Russia’s increasing willingness to turn off the tap. Now those fears are becoming a reality as Germany prepares for a return to 1970s-style energy rationing, when the OPEC oil embargo forced governments to mandate measures like dimmer lights and car-free Sundays.
Only, the energy crisis of 2022 isn’t limited to oil.
Last year, Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its natural gas imports. Germany has since been able to reduce that number to 35%, but with Russia seemingly prepared to further cut gas shipments to Europe, German officials are having to make some difficult choices.
This week, a city official in Hamburg—Germany’s second-largest city—warned that “warm water could only be made available at certain times of the day in an emergency,” forecasting the possibility of a severe natural gas shortage. And on Friday, residents in the eastern German state of Saxony were told by their housing association that they could take hot showers only between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day, the Financial Times reported.
“The situation is more than dramatic,” Axel Gedaschko, a German politician and president of GdW, the federal association of German housing, told the FT.
It isn’t just hot water that’s being rationed. In addition to shorter shower times, officials are asking city councils nationwide to turn off traffic lights at night, stop illuminating historic buildings, and go easy on using air conditioners in a bid to conserve electricity, according to the FT.
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Friday, residents in the eastern German state of Saxony were told by their housing association that they could take hot showers only between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day,.... the Financial Times reported.
GROUP SHOWERS?????
As the German Green Euro-weenies go, so will the U.S.A Green-weenies take our nation. These useful idiots can all take a wild leap off the Santa Monica Pier in pursuit of the Mother-ship. It is Hell’s Gate, not Heaven’s Gate, dummies.
I see what you mean. Not me.
Germany did not do this even during WW2..... : )
No, too busy wiping the egg off their faces.
How do they plan on enforcing this? I could just see some scum bag, calling and saying, you were taking a hot shower at 7 PM. Guy says, no, I was washing the dishes. 😀🤗
GROUP SHOWERS?????
Developed and refined by Germany during WWII!
I’m on a frugal-living discussion group online. Around March, posts started showing up from people in Germany, asking for advice on how to prepare meals without an oven, stove, or other appliances. Energy prices were climbing so fast, a lot of people couldn’t afford to cook anymore.
I wondered how long it would take for the media to mention what was happening over there.
Everyone who can, make sure you have a backup plan ready, for when that happens here!
They have anti-idle laws that they strictly enforce, actually. :P
Trump warned them. And they all laughed at him.
The Germans will probably just shrug and get on with it like they usually do; the newer arrivals however may not be so acquiescent?
Nothing worse than a stinky person in the dark, enjoy the green
The irony is that even as EU reverts to coal, they continue to lock down gas reserves all over Europe and refuse to allow drilling. The situation all may change now that the EU has designated gas as a “green” fuel, and Germany is considering to defer closing their remaining nuclear plants.
Yep. Continue to sacrifice to Gaia....and take cold showers in the dark and shiver in the dark during winter and sweat like a pig in the dark in the Summer
OR
Live like modern people in the 21st century and have a modern functioning economy.
Your choice Germans.
Ploesti was sucked dry a long time ago.
If cities turned off street and other outdoor lighting after 10 pm, it would cut way down on the gun violence.
I wonder how much extra energy all those millions of “refugees” are using.
Welcome to the new Soviet Union, idiots.🙄
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